The adhesive nature of the conglutinate terminal filament could serve to maintain the conglutinate within shoal and riffle habitats by adhering to gravel, rocks, or other hard substrata as it tumbles along the stream bottom following release.

The conglutinate illustration is by Sam Biebers, Jackson, Mississippi.

We recently had the opportunity to examine a gravid female and conglutinates of the rare freshwater mussel Ptychobranchus greeni (Conrad, 1834).

Approximately 160 conglutinates remained in the left gill, with about another 50, distended, apparently recently discharged oviducts in the posterior quarter.

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